John Sumser Kicks Off a Series on Culture this week. John Writes, “Culture Is the Aggregate of the Experience of All Stakeholders. The Largest Single Element, by Far, Is Employee Experience.” Read, Culture? 1.

There Is No Shortage of Forgettable Email Solicitations From HR and Recruiting Vendors. John Sumser Explains How the Best Ones Don’t Try to Sell You Anything at All. Read, How To Do It.

HRIntelligencer 1.10 Highlights: When Will Automation Reach Your Industry?, How to Understand Machine Learning Adoption in the Enterprise, What Tomorrow’s Business Leaders Need to Know About Machine Learning, Who Earns the Most in the Gig Economy?, Plus More.

On Episode 132 of HR Tech Weekly: John Sumser’s New Report on Artificial Intelligence, Stacey Harris Appointed to IHIRM Board, SyncHR Get $16 Million in Funding Led by NEA, Efficient Forms Announces Partnership With AltaLink Capital, and Facebook’s Plan to Convince Businesses Workplace Beats Slack and Microsoft Teams.

On Episode 26 of HRx Big Ideas Radio, John Sumser Talks With Dr. Dale A. Masi, Professor Emeritus at the University of Maryland. Dr. Masi Is the Author of Fifteen Books and More Than Seventy Articles Dealing With EAPs, Evaluation, and Various Mental Health Issues. Listen to Big Ideas Radio.

“What you do - and the way you do it - must be directly in line with why your role, function, and department exists.” - Robin Schooling in her article, HR Needs to be Purposeful.

HRIntelligencer 1.09 Highlights: The new ways the rich signal their wealth, How Subtle Class Clues Can Backfire on your Resume, McDonald’s Is Replacing 2,500 Human Cashiers With Digital Kiosks, If Your Company Isn’t Good at Analytics, It’s Not Ready for AI, and The Future is Emotional.

On Episode 131 of HR Tech Weekly: Strategic Hires at SuccessFactors and Zenefits, LinkedIn Profile Access Lawsuit, BetterWorks Sued Over Alleged Sexually Suggestive Assault, Employees Use Social Media to Expose Their Companies, Adobe Asks Major Firms to Help Them Kill Flash by 2020, Wisconsin Company With Microchip Implants, What HR Should Know About Drones, and $1.8M Fine for Firing Prescription Drug User.

John Sumser talks with Steven Rothberg, the President and Founder of College Recruiter. Steven founded the company in 1991 as a publisher of campus maps and employment magazines. By 2000, the business had morphed into the interactive recruitment media company that it is today. Listen to HRExaminer Radio - Executive Conversations.

John Sumser was asked about his forecasts for 2018. He thought that the splintering of HR was an interesting place to start. Read, Ex Uno Plures. Out of One, Many.

Where do valuable tools with less exciting technology fit in? John Sumser considers the utility of “Good Enough Technology.”

HRIntelligencer 1.08 Highlights: The Power of AI to Manipulate Humans, AI Robots Learning Racism/Sexism/Prejudice From Humans, Can We Copy the Brain?, and Use deep learning even if your data isn’t that big.

On episode 130 of HR Tech Weekly: Google rolls out HR software, New Funding for Lever and Workato, Mercer invests in PayScale, New Partnerships for Infor Partners and ADP and also BambooHR and PlanSource, and more.

On Episode 25 of HRx Big Ideas Radio, John Sumser talks with Doug Shaw about Doug’s current work that uses the arts as a lens through which to explore Organizational Development. Listen to Big Ideas Radio.

“Algorithms and machine learning isolate and purify the things that are unique to a culture. But, if you are trying to ‘improve’ the culture (and reduce its biases), it’s a different story. Read John Sumser’s article, Data is Biased.

John Sumser writes, “Generally, the people who think HR is somehow stuck are selling something. They either have a product that does an old thing in a new way or they are offering some form of transformative service.” From the Mouths of Babes.

HRIntelligencer 1.07: Google’s Quick Draw, Robots and Warehouse Jobs, Lessons from 3,000 technical interviews, Developers Who Use Spaces Make More Money Than Those Who Use Tabs, a Machine learning algorithm cheat sheet, and Robots are doing the work of $326,000-a-year Goldman Sachs employees.

On Episode 24 of HRx Big Ideas Radio, John Sumser talks with Vinnie Mirchandani, the President of Deal Architect. Mirchandani helps clients take advantage of disruptive trends before they go mainstream. His books, The New Polymath and The New Technology Elite have been called “innovation firehoses.” Listen to Big Ideas Radio.

“If you want to do what other people were doing last year, spend a lot of time navel gazing, and define success according to conventional standards.” Read, When Best Practices Don’t Work from Heather Bussing.

In HRIntelligencer 1.05, John Sumser shares Why robotic automation is stumbling, How Blockchains Could Transform AI, Why So Few People Major in Computer Science?, Auditing Black-Box Predictive Models, When AI Botches Your Medical Diagnosis, Will Robots Take My Job?, and how Google’s AlphaGo DeepMind works.

On episode 127 of HR Tech Weekly: New GuideSpark Product, Workday on Medium Enterprise Organizations, Facebook gives up on making the world more open, Google and Microsoft urging court to back gay workers, and European Commission hands Google record $2.72 billion fine.

John Sumser talks with China Gorman, a successful global business executive in the Human Capital Management (HCM) sector. China is a sought-after advisor and speaker bringing the CEO perspective to the challenges of building company culture. China is the author of Data Point Tuesday blog and is published in mainstream media properties like Fortune, TLNT, and Fast Company. Listen to China Gorman on HRExaminer Radio - Executive Conversations.

In HRIntelligencer 1.04, John Sumser shares the Big Picture on algorithmic fallibility, HR’s view on Big Data, Lessons from the front lines of machine learning, 10 Common Natural Language Processing (NLP) Terms, The Strange Loop in Deep Learning, and the quote of the week.

On episode 126 of HR Tech Weekly: HRTech Investments from Textio, Entelo, and Talla, CareerBuilder sells most of its stock, ADP and FinancialForce, Microsoft and Accenture BlockChain ID’s, and Zenefits to pay $3.4 million in unpaid overtime.

John Sumser talks with Yvette Cameron. Yvette has over 30 years of experience in the HCM industry and is currently the SVP of Strategy & Corporate Development at SAP SuccessFactors. In previous HCM roles she worked at Gartner, SAP, Oracle, Saba, PeopleSoft, and JD Edwards. Listen to Yvette Cameron on HRExaminer Radio - Executive Conversations.

The European Union’s new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) will have significant impact on businesses around the globe. Not to worry, Mika Javanainen has you covered with, 10 Things for HR to Know about GDPR.

In HRIntelligencer 1.03, John Sumser shares the Big Picture on AI assistants, HR’s view on Cybersecurity hiring woes, Predictive modeling for People Analytics, Tutorials on natural language processing for Big Data, and the Quote of the Week.

On episode 125 of HR Tech Weekly: HR Tech World Updates, Ascendify, Talent App Store, Should company’s make Vacation mandatory, and John and Stacey’s HR Tech World Presentation: HR Tech Ethics of HR and Machine Learning.

The term ‘job board’ popped up not long after the first round of job postings appeared on electronic bulletin boards (BBSs, remember?). The recruitment marketing world has changed substantially since then - but job boards are still stuck with their not-so-accurate tag. Read, When a Name is an Anchor from Jeff Dickey-Chasins.

In John Sumser’sHRIntelligencer 1.02 he shares HR’s view on analytics, tutorials on chatbots, and the quote of the week.

John Sumser talks with Kieran Snyder, the CEO and Co-Founder of Textio, an augmented writing experience that tells you how your writing will perform before you ever publish it. Kieran held product leadership roles at Microsoft and Amazon and has a PhD in linguistics from the University of Pennsylvania. Listen to Kieran Snyder on HRExaminer Radio - Executive Conversations.

On Episode 23 of HRx Big Ideas Radio, John Sumser talks with Peter Hinssen, serial entrepreneur and author of three bestselling business books. Peter lectures at renowned business schools like the London Business School and the MIT Sloan School of Management, is a frequent keynote speaker, and is a frequent contributor to international publications. Listen to Peter Hinssen on Big Ideas Radio.

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